The Student Union of Namibia (SUN) says ordinary Namibians without any connections or relationships to ministers are unable to access tenders or government projects. SUN president Simon Amunime says mainly the family members and children of government officials benefit from government projects. This is in response to president Hage Geingob’s remarks on Thursday at State […]
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The trial of alleged Marange child molester Hatirarami Momberume (26), who is facing a murder charge, failed to kicks off Tuesday after he defaulted his appearance in the regional court’s dock, raising fears he may have skipped bail. Manicaland provincial magistrate Richard Ramaboure, who is presiding over the case, was forced to issue a warrant […]
The First Lady Monica Chakwera has disclosed that Malawi ranks 12th highest contributor of child, early and forced marriages across the globe, with 42 percent of girls getting married before reaching the age of 18. Speaking during the opening of the National Girls Education Symposium in Lilongwe on Tuesday, Chakwera expressed disappointment with the rating, […]
The world has experienced a 59% decline in the deaths of children younger than five years since 1990. New mortality estimates indicate that the largest drop was in 2019, when global under-five deaths were reduced to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990. The substantial progress in reducing child deaths occurred four years after the […]
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Zimbabwe: Two Child Rights Bills Gazetted
Government has gazetted the Child Justice Bill and Children’s Amendment Bill, two separate Bills that seek to enhance rights and protection of children as enshrined by the Constitution. The Bills, which are expected to be tabled in Parliament soon, were contained in a Government Gazette published last Friday. The Child Justice Bill seeks to establish […]
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 6, 2021—This generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 percent of today’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related school closures, according to a new report published today by the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF. The new projection reveals that the […]
But where is the law that protects them? Eleven year-old Esther Kollie confidently weaves her way between cars on a hectic Saturday evening, from one end of the street to the next. At this point, nothing occupies her mind more than meeting her sales target for the day. She has to help her aunt to […]
AN estimated 4 020 children have died of Aids since 1985 and most of them had not reached the age of five, the Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Timothy Stamps has said. In an interview in Harare at the weekend, Dr Stamps said the children were born to HIV-infected mothers and got the […]
National Youth Camp : Groblershoop 04 – 10 December 2021 The Northern Cape Department of Sport, Arts, Culture (DSAC) in partnership with the national Department of Sport, Arts and Culture; Northern Cape Department of Education, Love Life and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) is hosting the 9th National Youth Camp in Grootdrink – Duin […]
No fewer than 33 infants are trapped at the various prison facilities in the country, LEADERSHIP Sunday investigations have revealed. Our correspondents who visited some of the Nigeria Correctional Services (NCoS) across the country report that pregnant women and those raising babies are a regular feature of the facilities. The public relations officer of the […]
A request to reopen Madobai Primary School was submitted in mid-November to authorities in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. It is one of the over two dozen primary schools forced to shut their doors to students following attacks by bandits on farming communities in the local government, leading to the desertion of dozens […]
Kampala — Light for the World Uganda, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, today launched an online platform, Cap-Able, which will enable higher education institutions, primarily Scholars Program partner universities, to become more disability inclusive. Cap-Able is a digital toolkit designed to equip administrators, lecturers, and management with the information, knowledge, and tools […]
The fourth wave has sparked an increase in hospital admissions in children under the age of five, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said. In a briefing led by Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, the NICD’s Dr Waasila Jassat said there has been a rise in children who are in hospital for COVID-19 in […]
President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday discouraged relationships involving elderly men and underage girls, saying most sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/Aids, contracted by the young girls are in most cases passed to them by older, married men. “Let us be honest with each other, children are not to blame for the unplanned pregnancies or sexually transmitted infections. […]
The international community should focus more on Africa’s children’s situation, says the 2021 Right Livelihood Laureate from Cameroon. Wandou also warns the Boko Haram crisis’ impact in the region has been underreported. Marthe Wandou has been fighting against sexual violence and promoting women’s and children’s rights in Cameroon for decades. Founded in 1998, her nongovernmental […]
Kampala, Uganda — Today, The Innovation Village, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has released the findings from a survey to understand and analyze the current state of the developer landscape in Uganda. The survey, launched in March 2021, sought to understand the number of developers, their demographics, region, gender and age; their engineering journey, […]
In Nigeria, at least 20,695 children were newly infected with HIV in 2020. A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has shown that, at least, one child globally was infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) every two minutes in 2020. The report, which was released to commemorate the 2021 World AIDS […]
Funmi Ogundare Stakeholders from all walks of life recently converged on the Protea Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos for the launch of ‘The Hurried Child’ project, aimed at highlighting the dangers of rushing or overburdening a child through childhood years conditionally or unconditionally by factors influencing the home, school and society thereby causing negative stress. The […]